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Application filed. February 20, 19 29. Serial no. 341,443.

This invention relates to improvements in fasteners or clips particularly of the pin type for securing price marking tags or tickets to merchandise. The invention primarilyis directed to a pin fastener having its ends looped about opposite edges of the tag and inwardly underneath the tag.

An object of the invention is to secure a tag or ticket to merchandise by apin fastener in a manner in which the ends of the pin are concealed and'guarded;

Another object of the invention is to secure a tag or ticket to merchandise by'a pin fastener engaged through the tag and merchan dise, with the ends of the pin looped or crimped relatively about opposite edges'of the tag to extend inwardly toward each other underneath the tag. I

Other features and advantages of the invention will be more fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, in which: a

Figure 1 is a plan view of a tag as applied with the improved fastener to a piece of fabric merchandise.

Figure 2 is a section on line 22, Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a sectional view of the tag and fabric in position to be secured together by the fastener, the fastener shown in elevation therebeneath in the form of a staple ready to be engaged through the goods and ticket. Figure 4: is a similar View to Figure 1 of a modified form of fastener.-

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5, Figure 4. I

Figure 6 is a view of the fastener shown in F1gures 4: and 5, representative of a a straightbar or shank having a hook end.

The form of fastener shown in Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, is characteristic of a staple,.

while the form shown in Figures 4 to 6 inclusive, is of a straight bar or shank with a.

preformed hookend. The designs of the pin or fastener and its method ofapplication in securing the tag to the goods maybe diversified and present a form most suitableto the class of merchandise to be ticketed.

For instance, the staple form is more ample for securing the tag to heavy fabric or binding several layers of fabric, while the pin form can be moreadvantageously utistacking lized'for thin or light weight fabrics. in both instances, the endsof the fastener engage through the tag to present the same over- E. if

05mm Momm Man-K ne the face sides toward its opposite edges,

adapting the same to he looped over'the edges in a returnbend to extend inwardly upon the under face of the tag.

. For the staple type, the wire is initially bent into U form, furnishing a cross bar 1 and a pair of parallel limbs 2+2, the limbs forced through the fabric or merchandise 3 and tag 4, preferably from the underside of the fabric, bringing the cross bar against the underside of the fabric and the limbs through to theupper side of the tag, from whence the ends are bent in opposite directions over i the face side of the tagand about the opposite edges of, the tag, and thence inwardlyto lie underneath the tag, clinching the ends about the edges of the tag.

This brings the free ends of the. wire Icetween the tag and the fabric, completely housing and guarding the same, so thatno I sharp or barbed edges are exposed to prick the hands or into other pieces of fabric in or packing the ticketed fabric merchandise.-

V The style of fastener shown in Figures 4 to 6 inclusive, representative as a pin, has a straight bar or shank 5 which is passed longitag and'merchandise are slightly bowed or curved for convenient insertion of the pin through the tagand merchandise from the tudinally into and through the tag and goods 'sidewise of thetag, and in its application the One end of the pin preferably is preformed co with a hook or bend 6 to engage about an edge of'the tag and bring its free end inwardly underneath the tag, and the opposite end of the, pin after 1t has engaged through the tag and goods is bent or crimped over the opposite edge of the tag and about the same, thence inwardly underneath the tag to correspond with the opposite preformed end, and similar to that described for the staple form.

Having described my invention, 1 claim:

h Ieans for tagging merchandise, comprising, a tag and a Wire fastener for securing the tag to the merchandise, the fastener constituting a length of Wire engaged through he merchandise and tag at two points, the opposite ends of the wire extending from the upper side of the tag in opposite directions over the side edges of the tag and clinched thereto, with the free ends of the Wire eX- tending inwardly against the underside of the tag; i

In Witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe m name.

F REDERICK KOHNLE. 

